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To: Win Smith who started this subject	1/28/2003 6:16:20 PM
From: Bilow	of 603

Hi all; Interesting Pravda article on Stalin: The ‘Correct’ Way of Stalin’s Terror Pravda, January 27, 2003 There are a lot of people in Russia, who consider Joseph Stalin most respectable politician Kamchatka regional governor Mikhail Mashkovtsev said in one of his recent interviews on television that Stalin was his most respectable politician and statesman. As far as Stalin’s terror is concerned, he said that there was no way to avoid innocent victims. The governor added that the victims of the recent hostage crisis in Moscow was an example of innocent victims. Speaking about other victims of Stalin’s terror, Mashkovstev said that “it served them right.” The governor explained his statement with Marshals Tukhachevsky and Blucher. The Kamchatka region governor believes that the first one of them became too much presumptuous, whereas the second one was dreaming to separate the Far-Eastern republic from the USSR and to become its leader. It is an open secret that there are always two points of view – a point of view of someone’s own and an incorrect point of view. We will not argue about that, we would simply like to present another viewpoint to our readers. We would like to offer your attention an excerpt from the chapter about Vasily Blucher’s life. The chapter is taken from the book “Big Terror” by English historian Robert Conkwist. The Red Banner Army of the Far East took a special position in that-era Soviet Armed Forces. That army unit was organized as a separate, almost independent organization for strategic reasons. It was the only army unit that was commanded by experienced army figure, Marshal Blucher. The intensive terror was going on for five weeks, and ended up with the fact that Blucher returned to the Far East and started executing his obligations there. There was a skirmish between Soviet and Japanese troops on June 30, 1937 on the Amur river. The Japanese occupied the Island of Bolshoi on July 6th. There were protests, but the Soviet troops did not attempt to oust the invaders. It stands the reason that it was just a test of forces for the Japanese, for they came to conclusion that the combat efficiency of the Soviet troops in the Far East was paralyzed with the cleansing at the Red Banner Army of the Far East. ... english.pravda.ru -- Carl

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